# Ben French unit 3, SD — planned retirement, EIA data for June 2026

For Ben French unit 3, SD, planned retirement year is 2027; planned retirement month is 9; net summer capacity (mw) is 2; technology is Petroleum Liquids; fuel code is DFO; operator is Black Hills Power, Inc, verified against its source on 2026-09-24.

- **Plant:** Ben French _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EIA plant ID:** 3325 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Generator ID:** 3 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Planned retirement year:** 2027 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Planned retirement month:** 9 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Operator:** Black Hills Power, Inc. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EIA entity ID:** 19545 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Producer type:** Electric Utility _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **State:** SD _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Net summer capacity (MW):** 2 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Technology:** Petroleum Liquids _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Fuel code:** DFO _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Prime mover:** IC _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **EPM edition:** June 2026 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_

## What the source says

> 2027 | 9 | 19545 | Black Hills Power, Inc. | Electric Utility | Ben French | SD | 3325 | 3 | 2 | Petroleum Liquids | DFO | IC

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### EPM edition

> Table 1.1. Net Generation by Energy Source: Total (All Sectors), 2016-June 2026

## Source

- https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/archive/august2026.zip

Last verified: 2026-09-24. Review by: 2026-11-03.
Part of [Planned US generating-unit retirements, as EIA published them in one named month's Electric Power Monthly](https://referencesource.org/power-plant-retirement-schedule/).